He spake, and loud they laughed. Eurymachus, The son of Polybus, in answer said:—
“The stranger prattles idly; he is come From some far land. Conduct him through the door, Young men, and send him to the marketplace, Since all things here are darkened to his eyes.”
Then spake the godlike Theoclymenus: “Eurymachus, from thee I ask no guide, For I have eyes and ears, and two good feet, And in my breast a mind as sound as they, And by the aid of these I mean to make My way without; for clearly I perceive A coming evil, which no suitor here Will yet escape—no one who, in these halls Of the great chief, Ulysses, treats with scorn His fellow-man, and broods o’er guilty plans.”
He spake, and, hastening from that noble pile, Came to Piraeus, in whose house he found A welcome. All the suitors, as he went, Looked at each other, and, the more to vex Telemachus, kept laughing at his guests. And thus an insolent youth among them said:—
“No man had ever a worse set of guests Than thou, Telemachus.